American Politics
A selection of recent articles on this topic
RJN: The Times and the Church
Those sixteen words have taken a terrible beating in the past fifty years. For most of our…
Rutler: Words and Reality
Lewis Carroll anticipated the word games that demagogues play when he had Humpty Dumpty say, “When I…
Oakes: Nihilism and Iraq
Midterm congressional elections in the United States are barely two weeks away, and all the polls I’ve…
Barr: Dawkins, Unfortunately
A small price that I have paid for the privilege of writing book reviews for First Things…
Anderson: Read This Ad
“So,” asked Father Neuhaus, “why don’t they take out an ad in First Things ?” I explained…
Rose: Jenkins, Regensburg, and Balthasar
It was standing-room-only on Monday night when Philip Jenkins delivered the annual Erasmus Lecture at the Union…
Rose: Abortion and Public Reason
Tucked away in the back of last week’s New York Review of Books , Michael Sandel and…
Anderson: The Family vs. the State
Last month, Britain’s Telegraph ran stories telling of two elderly sisters who brought the British government before…
Rose: Wilson, Dawkins & Co.
Christians look at creation and see the handiwork of the Lord. Nonreligious environmentalists marvel at what natural…
Judge William Pryor and Lee Silver
Judge William H. Pryor is on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. I count him…
Bonus article available
As a special bonus for Columbus Day weekend, we’re making available here on our website a second…
Miller: Transgressive Art Pacified
Characteristic of postmodernist art is transgression, the idea that the artist ought to produce works that violate…
RJN: I.F. Stone
In this Sunday’s New York Times , Paul Berman has a thoughtful review of two books ,…
Correspondence
Farr Gone on Religion In response to Thomas F. Farr’s “The Diplomacy of Religious Freedom” (May): Before…
Culture of Death
Sacred Order / Social Order, Vol. 1, My Life Among the Deathworks: Illustrations of the Aesthetics of…
